Evasive Tactics Quotes

[Jimmy Carter's] campaign strategy was to remain unclear on all the issues.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

… a man remarkable even among civil servants for adroitness in baffling inconvenient inquiries, resource in raising false issues, and, in, short, a consummate command of all the arts of officially sticking in the mud

I'm a distance fighter - if you've seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

It's an old Washington tradition to dodge and weave when you're under interrogation.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.

My head aches every time Donald Trump successfully dodges a question with this reoccurring tactic. What's his worst offense? I don't know. How long is this article?

He tried to fool the United Nations, and did for 12 years, by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.